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It took me a while to figure out how to minimize the share via social media bar that pops up on the left. Which for me seems to block the first 4 letters on th
by bargl 10y ago
It took me a while to figure out how to minimize the share via social media bar that pops up on the left. Which for me seems to block the first 4 letters on the left hand side at my current screen width. Just a heads up. When I move to a larger 1080p monitor there is a space on the left so it doesn't block it. Look at your page with 1600 x 900. Not sure if this is an issue for you but I thought I'd mention it.
- joekrill 10y agoThese things drive me insane. It's ridiculous. Do these people only check their sites on huge monitors?
- Someone1234 10y agoAlmost nobody checks their pages at 125% or 150%. Even though with higher resolution monitors these DPI settings are becoming more widely used. When I loaded the page the first thing I did was highlight that stupid box and kill it with the developer bar. I'm at 1080p and 125% DPI. As a general rule, anything that can hover over other content on the page (from share buttons to menus and beyond) are going to annoy someone and break someone's experience. No exceptions. If it isn't happening today it will happen tomorrow.
- forgottenpass 10y agoDo these people only check their sites on huge monitors? Based on my experience with a portrait-oriented monitor for document editing, nobody bothers making websites work at viewport sizes other than "maximized on the designer's screen."
- phildougherty 10y agoThanks for the heads up, I'll look into making that less annoying.
- phildougherty 10y agoWe changed the size of the social share widget to be smaller, hope it helps.
- bargl 10y agoHoly crap that was a quick fix, and well done. If you want to dive into it further in the future there is room for improvement but bravo on the quick reaction! If you want me to put on my pedantic hat I'd that it's distracting still without the white space provided by 1080p. I really hate being overly picky like this but I want you to get valuable feedback. Ignore it, or take it but I applaud how quickly you fixed the issue to get this. EDIT: I went back and checked closer and no there are no pixels that I can't see.
- phildougherty 10y agoThanks for the appreciation :) I may just nuke the social share thing altogether, but I think I'll sleep on that decision.
- dom96 10y agoHow many people actually use these things? I would normally just copy the link and paste it into Reddit/Twitter/wherever instead of clicking any social media widget.
- jlgaddis 10y agoPlease do nuke it. I've got it on my blog so I need to nuke it as well (although my blog is pretty much "abandoned" at this point), I've received lots of complaints before about it also getting in the way.
- jlgaddis 10y agoFYI, it's still "in the way" on my iPad.
- JoshGlazebrook 10y agoNot completely on topic, but is your product essentially kind of like Docker Cloud (formerly Tutum)? I loved Tutum until they became Docker Cloud and started charging per node. The flat monthly price on your product is way more attractive to me.
- phildougherty 10y agoYep we have a lot of similarities to Docker Cloud/Tutum. Per-seat pricing, unlimited servers/clusters. We have a free tier you can try out.
- JoshGlazebrook 10y agoI'll definitely check it out!
- MaBu 10y agoThere is also Carina docker cloud ( https://getcarina.com/ https://getcarina.com/ ) from Rackspace which is currently in free Beta.
- elevensies 10y agoHere is a bookmarklet that I have saved from a previous discussion on HN that will delete those kinds of things from the page: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/